Fabien Jaccoud

Fabien Jaccoud (4 April 1897-13 November 1971) was a French MRP politician who served as the deputy for Paris-11 in the National Assembly from 1945 to 1951.

Biography
Fabien Jaccoud was born in Paris, France on 4 April 1897, and he served as a Private in the French Army's 14e Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne during World War I. After the war, Jaccoud became a florist, living in Paris and building his own small business. During the 1930s, he affiliated himself with the Republican Federation party due to his devout Catholicism.

When the German Wehrmacht invaded France in 1940 during World War II, Jaccoud volunteered to rejoin the Army with the rank of Lieutenant. Jaccoud fought in the ensuing battle for France, and, in June 1940, he went into hiding as Nazi forces entered and occupied Paris. There, Jaccoud became involved with the local French Resistance and took part in Resistance activities from its La Villette hideout. One of Jaccoud's acquaintances during this time was the Irish Resistance fighter Sean Devlin, who shared the same base as him.

With the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, Jaccoud resumed his Army service and was promoted to Captain after serving in the Colmar Gap campaign. On 21 October 1945, in the first elections held in France in almost ten years, Jaccoud was elected to the new National Assembly as an MRP deputy representing a constituency in Paris. Jaccoud supported the constitution of the French Fourth Republic and sought to uphold Christian democratic values during his tenure, and he retired ahead of the 1951 legislative election. Jaccoud died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 74.